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Sudo -w PASSWORD  
Written by xxkirastarothxx the 18 Nov 08 at 11:19. Category: Security. Related to: Nothing/Others. New
A simple command line to use sudo "in-one-line".

ex:
* sudo -w mYPaSsWORD /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
* sudo -s -w mYPaSsWORD
...

It could be realy usefull for Webmasters who uses exec()/system()/... command from php or PHPShell and other shell system without interactivity.
For the moment, the one way is to define /etc/sudoers to use sudo WITHOUT password; or write the password in a file.pw
* su -c /etc/init.d/apache2 restart < root.pw
that could be a security fail for servers

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